We Choose to Not Use the Term "Medical Marijuana"

While you may have heard medical cannabis referred to as medical marijuana, at
Harborside we do not use that term. William Randolph Hearst utilized
the word marijuana, as did his political allies, to promote harmful stereotypes
about both the Mexican and Black populations. Smokers of marijuana were frequently
caricatured as crazed and violent black men or lazy, thieving Mexicans.

We use the term medical cannabis rather than medical marijuana because we choose
not to associate the positive healing properties of cannabis with the negative,
racist undertones of the word marijuana. To use that term would passively support
the wrong and hurtful notions of Hearst and his allies, whereas we believe
that cannabis is medicine, and is meant for people of all colors and walks of
life.